Go See Carsten Höller: Experience @ New Museum on the Bowery - Bring your friends for lots of things to do!

Dog Star knows many devoted readers will really enjoy this exhibition at the New Museum (more here).  This Swedish artist Carsten Höller creates "museum environments" as a Conceptual artist.  What this means is he tries to find ways to alter the typical museum experience of "visiting and looking at art on the walls."  He is a former scientist who left his career in the lab in 1993 to be a full-time artist who explores interactivity, environments and participatory installations.  One of the things he will create at the New Museum is a giant slide like the one he did at the Tate in london (see videos below).  Here is how it is described on the museum's website:  "Functioning as an alternative transportation system within the Museum, one of Höller’s signature slide installations will run from the fourth floor to the second, perforating ceilings and floors, to shuttle viewers through the exhibition as a giant 102-foot-long pneumatic mailing system."  Basically he is going to build a giant slide - can't they just say that!  We have heard it will be a much safer experience than at the Tate and include helmets and other safety gear.  Be sure to go for the bruises.  As you can see in the videos the Tate is a giant space because it is a former power station.  Unfortunately, the New Museum is much smaller and will not be as open as the Tate space.  It will still be worthwhile and IT IS ALWAYS FREE FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS and EASY TO REACH ON THE BOWERY JUST TWO BLOCKS SOUTH OF HOUSTON STREET.  Museum si on the corner of Bowery & Prince Street.  Opens October 26 until January 15, 2012.